Analysis of demographics and results of student's opinion survey of a large scale mooc deployment for the spanish speaking community

Zabala, Ignacio Despujol; Turró, Carlos; Busqueis, Jaime; Canero, Aristoteles

doi:10.1109/fie.2014.7044102

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“…MOOC learners are in their vast majority college degree holders (Despujol et al, 2014;Ding et al, 2014) and employed (Macleod, Haywood, Woodgate & Alkhatnai, 2014;Dillahunt, Wang & Teasley, 2014). Indeed, Christensen et al (2013) study reported that 83% of MOOC students have a postsecondary degree, 79.4% of students have a Bachelor's degree or higher and 44.2% indicated a level of education beyond a Bachelor degree.…”

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“…Research shows that MOOCs attract diverse students from different countries (Despujol et al, 2014). However, studies addressing participants' demographics and reasons for enrolling in MOOCs integrating group work are rare.…”

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“…Discussions on learners' demographics and motivations for taking a course have been to some extent covered in MOOC research (Despujol, Turro, Busqueis & Canero, 2014;Guo & Reinecke, 2014). Research shows that MOOCs attract diverse students from different countries (Despujol et al, 2014).…”

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Exploratory study of MOOC learners’ demographics and motivation: The case of students involved in groups

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2016

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This paper reports preliminary findings on students enrolled in a massive open online course, who were also assigned to work in groups. Part of a larger study on the effect of groups on retention and completion in MOOCs, the paper provides students' demographics (i.e., location, gender, education level, and employment status), and motivation for taking the course. Findings show that women outnumbered men and that students mostly enrolled into the course because of a friend. Indeed, research on MOOCs demonstrates that men outnumber women and that educational pursuit and professional development are the main motivators for taking MOOCs. Yet, this paper shows that when group work is included in a MOOC, women participate more. Furthermore, for students assigned to groups in a MOOC, friends are the principal incentive for enrolling into the course. These results are discussed in light of previous research, and implications for teaching and learning in online environments addressed.

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Exploratory study of MOOC learners’ demographics and motivation: The case of students involved in groups

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2016

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“…Shortly after, our university (UPV) embarked on the project to generate MOOCs where we participate actively [14]. Our published MOOC [15] was the final push to implement the flip teaching methodology, relying on the subject OCW and MOOC made.…”

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“…In our case, the online training materials that we use in the course is the OCW course "Estructuras Matemáticas para la Informática II", accessible from the website of the UPV [3] and MOOC "Aplicaciones de la Teoría de Grafos a la vida real" (Applications of Graph Theory to real life), active in the UPVX and EDX platform [15] (see Fig. 4).…”

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